Ethereum core developers will make a decision this Thursday on whether EIP-8141 should be included in the Hegota upgrade.

ZkProver · 2026-03-24T03:34:38+00:00

Ethereum core developers will decide this Thursday whether to include the EIP-8141 proposal, aimed at decoupling accounts from signature schemes to support post-quantum-safe signatures and account abstraction, enhancing protocol programmability and privacy support.

ZkProver

2026-03-24 03:34:38

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ChainCatcher News: Ethereum Foundation researcher ladislaus.eth revealed that the AllCoreDevs meeting is scheduled for this Thursday to decide whether to include EIP-8141 in the Hegota upgrade.

The core of EIP-8141 is to decouple accounts from fixed signature schemes, providing a native path for migration to post-quantum secure signature schemes. ladislaus.eth pointed out that if the consensus layer (leanCL) already has post-quantum security, but user transactions on the execution layer still rely on ECDSA signatures vulnerable to quantum attacks, the overall migration is incomplete. Both layers need to be post-quantum ready.

Additionally, EIP-8141 supports account abstraction as a native protocol feature and enables programmable gas payments, including payments with ERC-20 tokens and transaction sponsorships. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin added that EIP-8141 will also improve native support for privacy protocols and likened this to the general programmability of the EVM—introducing programmability to the verification phase, which previously only hardcoded ECDSA.

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